Lois Ruby

Shanghai Shadows

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A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive Throughout tomboy Ilse's childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady. But when Hitler annexes their country, the family flees, boarding a packed freighter and sailing around the world in search of a safe harbor. The United States refuses to take them, so they proceed to China and make a new home in steamy, mysterious Shanghai. Their lodgings are cramped, money is tight, and Ilse's father cannot find work-but Ilse is enchanted by the city's international flavor. In Shanghai's shadows she finds the adventu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5040-2802-8
EAN: 9781504028028
Produktnummer: 18976766
Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 234 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.4 cm 272 g
Gewicht: 272
Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 15 J.

Über den Autor

Lois Ruby is the author of 18 books for middle graders and teens, including Steal Away Home, Miriam's Well, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, Rebel Spirits, Skin Deep, and The Doll Graveyard. Her fiction runs the gamut from contemporary to historical and from realistic to paranormal. An ex-librarian, Ruby now writes full-time, in addition to speaking to bookish groups, presenting at writing workshops, and touting literacy and the joys of nourishing, thought-provoking reading in schools across the country. Ruby and her husband live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.